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Re: return of the gutter guards - 5 weeks ago
I bought these and installed them myself: They're a bit over $1 a foot and they work fine. I do have one shallow valley overhung by a large tree where wind just doesn't get to that I have to blow off once a year. Pine needles occasionally get stuck in them but a heavy rain takes them off. It's never more than a few pine needles; nothing like the old aluminum flip-up gutter guards that I had fby Michael - Tips and Deals
Re: The new refugees, women fleeing Texas - 5 weeks ago
The Texas law is going to get overturned when it makes it to the Supreme Court following the first citizen suing an abortion clinic. The Texas abortion law will get tossed because the citizen doesn't have standing. Even the conservative justices require standing and narrowed it in TransUnion v. Ramirez earlier this year.by Michael - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
Re: Happy Birthday MR Forum member RecipeForDisaster - 5 weeks ago
Happy (belated!) birthday, RecipeForDisaster!by Michael - Tips and Deals
Re: Happy Birthday MR Forum member davemchine - 5 weeks ago
Happy (belated!) birthday, davemachine!by Michael - Tips and Deals
Re: Recommend a BASIC bathroom scale? - 5 weeks ago
QuoteRobert M Steve, Picked up a Wyze scale. Reasonably priced for a scale and cheap for a smart scale. Accurate. Works well. Don't need to use the smart features. Serves just fine as a plain ol' scale. Step on it. Weight displays. Done. Want a history of your weight? Use the smart features. Robert We have one, as well, and like it.by Michael - Tips and Deals
Re: Jeebus, I feel like I got hit by a freight train, after a parachute failure! - 5 weeks ago
Quoteanonymouse1 Interesting! It’s the exact opposite fir my fanily and friends-it’s the conservatives who won’t get vaccinated. Quoteqdog2 Unlike so many conservatives, I think of others too, not just myself. Funny all the unvaxed in my family and neighborhood are liberals Most of our social group comes from church and we know people from very liberal to very conservative (our group gby Michael - Tips and Deals
Re: Samsung TV - agreeing to the terms and conditions is a special kind of hell - 5 weeks ago
Quotemattkime QuoteMichael Congrats. I replaced a 32" smart Samsung because it wouldn't load/play an app that their website said would work, and that their CS said would work if only I'd do x, y and z. None of it worked. I've pretty much just gone back to Roku boxes on my smart tv's so the Samsung will be set up that way down the road. If you still have the tv, doing a factory reset frby Michael - Tips and Deals
Re: Jeebus, I feel like I got hit by a freight train, after a parachute failure! - 5 weeks ago
Good luck with a fast recovery. I was lucky with both Pfizer shots and had minimal side effects. My poor wife had a much more significant response but still it sounds like less than yours. We're keeping track of the vaccine approval for kids and we'll schedule our third shots for right before they get approved for kids even if it's before the 8 month time frame. The schools around here are havby Michael - Tips and Deals
Re: Are Home Depot sample size paints *real* paint? - 5 weeks ago
QuoteCarm Buy a quart. Get what you need. This. You'll likely need to touch up here and there as time goes on. You could get a couple of empty pint containers and put the extra in them. Fill one to the very top and seal it carefully. It can last a LONG time full and sealed.by Michael - Tips and Deals
Re: Samsung TV - agreeing to the terms and conditions is a special kind of hell - 5 weeks ago
Congrats. I replaced a 32" smart Samsung because it wouldn't load/play an app that their website said would work, and that their CS said would work if only I'd do x, y and z. None of it worked. I've pretty much just gone back to Roku boxes on my smart tv's so the Samsung will be set up that way down the road.by Michael - Tips and Deals
Re: Happy Birthday MR Forum member blooz - 6 weeks ago
Happy birthday!!!by Michael - Tips and Deals
Re: RED YOU FOOLS! Apple Watch Series 6 40mm GPS $249 - 6 weeks ago
QuotepRICE cUBE QuoteSpiff Wait. Hold on. The series 7 watch will likely be delayed? Why? How do we know this? I've been holding out for the series 7 (using my fractured screen series 4 watch, using a plastic cover to keep it from falling apart). Should I not do that any more? Should I go for the 6? Thoughts? I don't know anything about delayed but in the current pandemic climate, nothing iby Michael - Tips and Deals
Re: AirPod Pros - questions for real world users - 6 weeks ago
QuoteArticle Accelerator QuoteMichaelI wore a pair of Costco hearing aids around the store on a try-out a couple of years ago and they were substantially better than the Airpod Pros Are they Apple Music-compatible? How about noise cancellation? Do they support spatial audio? You may want to give the AirPod Pro another try after doing audiogram calibration. See graylocks's link above. Theyby Michael - Tips and Deals
Re: RED YOU FOOLS! Apple Watch Series 6 40mm GPS $249 - 6 weeks ago
My wife got red and she likes it a lot. She alternates with pink. I use basic black!by Michael - Tips and Deals
Re: AirPod Pros - questions for real world users - 6 weeks ago
I use mine while mowing the lawn instead of ear plugs. Work fine. I did find that one slipped out of my ear when I was splitting some wood (by hand) but I really don't think that's a fair test of how well they stay in! I've used them for 3 hours or so without them running out of juice. I've used them as hearing aids several times. It was interesting being at a noisy restaurant with a half dozen fby Michael - Tips and Deals
Re: Happy Anniversary to Sam 3 and wife - 6 weeks ago
Happy anniversary and best wishes for many more!by Michael - Tips and Deals
Re: Struggling with making dinner - 6 weeks ago
We have a 5500 watt generator. I alternate plugging in the refrig and freezer when I use it but I just use the microwave without any concern about the load while either the refrig or freezer has been plugged in along with lights and router, etc. Never been a problem.by Michael - Tips and Deals
Re: running on empty?!....report today says Social Security will run out sooner than expected, by 2034..... - 6 weeks ago
Quotespace-time if they raise the income limit, they should also raise the benefits. person A makes 100k per year and ends up with 1k/month person B names 300k per year, pays 3x more into SS, they should get 3k/month when they retire. My wife and I made very different amounts of money throughout our earning years; one of us earned substantially more than the other for 35 years and for theby Michael - Tips and Deals
Re: Anyone get an email from T-Mobile regarding a breach? - 6 weeks ago
I got one and ignored it. Years ago we had 3 prepaid T-Mobile lines and we also had 2 iPads that had free T-Mobile data from a very early generation of iPads. We sold those a couple of years ago without the T-Mobile sims and hadn't used the data in years; I think it expired when I didn't use it. I just figured the email was related to one of those. We are currently T-Mobile postpaid and got anby Michael - Tips and Deals
Re: Opinions on Fitness tracker smart watches NOT from Fitbit or Apple? - 6 weeks ago
If you really want to go cheap, you might consider a Wyze Band. My wife got one when her Garmin went south too early and she was unhappy about what she paid vs. lifespan. She thought the Wyze Band was just fine. Eventually I talked her into an Apple Watch so it sits in a drawer now. But, it's a smart(ish?) band rather than a smart watch so perhaps it's not relevant to your needs.by Michael - Tips and Deals
Re: running on empty?!....report today says Social Security will run out sooner than expected, by 2034..... - 6 weeks ago
It's interesting that nobody seems to be talking about raising the early retirement age from 62 to some later age since people are living so much longer. Of course, since most people start SS at 62 that would make people, ummm, angry! But, those of us who have been around for a long time might remember that this isn't the first call of disaster. Both Carter and Reagan presided over calls of diby Michael - Tips and Deals
Re: regarding that EMPTY BOX on eBay - 7 weeks ago
Quotespace-time I did it Very nice! And we now know of your eBay id: viore100. Good feedback!by Michael - Tips and Deals
Re: Any T-Mobile customers here and what are you doing about the breach? - 7 weeks ago
For those hesitant to freeze their credit, I first did it in 2008 and it was a number of years before people generally were aware of what that was. I'd buy something in a store and they'd ask if I wanted to open a credit card to save 20% and I'd tell them I can't because my credit was frozen. They'd have no idea what I was talking about. In the last several years, people seem to all know about itby Michael - Tips and Deals
Re: Bank buildings: anyone here work in the banking industry at a higher level? - 7 weeks ago
Quotemrbigstuff My question is quite simple, actually: how do banks justify all the brick and mortar building? What is their increasing revenue stream from these edifices? RE is extremely expensive around here, yet they build on prime lots. I'm not talking headquarters, only branch buildings. My local bank (3 total branches) shut down two of their branches over the years, I assumed due to thby Michael - Tips and Deals
Re: Delta Air - get vaccinated or pay $200/month - 7 weeks ago
Our university system health care plan is self-insured and started charging smokers an extra $100 a month. That's per smoker on a given account. I'm fine with that. They haven't said anything about COVID vaccinations and an extra cost and they just approved the plan for next year so it won't happen right away. But, I'd be fine with it in the long term.by Michael - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
T-Mobile Magenta customers-how to get Apple TV+ - 7 weeks ago
Log into your account, go to the "Shop" dropdown, scroll down, and you'll see the ad for free Apple TV+ for a year, click on "Check It Out." Mine timed out a dozen times before it went on, so I clicked again (and again...). It went on and I had to choose my phone number from a drop down. Again, it timed out a dozen times. Finally it got to Apple and they wanted the security coby Michael - Tips and Deals
Re: Any T-Mobile customers here and what are you doing about the breach? - 7 weeks ago
The breach was a week ago. They sent me an email the next day and a notice appears on my account online when I log in.by Michael - Tips and Deals
Re: I had my biopsy last week and saw my Urologist yesterday - 7 weeks ago
Good news to be discovered very early. I think the watchful waiting makes sense. As an FYI, I had blood in my urine for 3 weeks after my prostate biopsy 2 years ago. My urologist had told me it would last a week; I checked after 2 weeks and he said it wasn't a problem and to not worry about it. It finally completely stopped a week later.by Michael - Tips and Deals
Re: Any T-Mobile customers here and what are you doing about the breach? - 7 weeks ago
Credit is frozen, changed our passwords and our pins, signed up for the Account Takeover Protection, signed up for the free McAfee identity monitoring thing, using 2fa. But the frozen credit is key, to me.by Michael - Tips and Deals
Re: Unique places you have toured? - 7 weeks ago
Quotedavester Charles Darwin's birthplace in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. As a geologist, this to me is like a devout christian going to the manger in Bethlehem. Interestingly, the place is not a shrine with tour guides, guest shops and the like. It's simply a government office where government bureaucrats do tax valuations. A few years ago my brother and I were passing through Shrewsbury onby Michael - Tips and Deals